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Hans Frömming

He was fondly named “the little man from Hamburg” or “little Jean”. He marked the whole century, already asserting himself during the interwar years as a “magician of the trot”. He was a horse connoisseur that never left anything to chance. Meticulous, he was a great tactician too. He knew how to come very fast from the rearguard of the pack, as was doing Alexander Finn to come and win in the last metres.

Endowed with a very strong personality, Hans Frömming did not have only friends and, at the beginning of his career his adversaries wanted to impose him the handicap of carrying lead in race because, as they pretended, he was winning too much races thanks to his small stature and to his featherweight!

...but even with this absurd handicap, Frömming went on winning at the same unashamed speed, and the horse authorities gave up rigging him with this extra lead.